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Cardozo Presents Stern Alumna's Play as Part of Its Four-Part Holocaust Series

Dec 8, 2005
-- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law’s Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies presented the play "w/Hole in the Heart," a powerful family story of Holocaust survival, performed at The Center for Jewish History on December 8. Written by Lea Wernick Fridman, professor at Kingsborough Community College and a graduate of Stern College for Women, the play focuses on how the daughter of a Holocaust victim deals with her mother’s incomplete descriptions of her past and attempts to fill in the holes in her stories. The performance was the second in the four-part series, "Stories and the Holocaust: Challenges to the Artistic Imagination," a group of performances that illustrate events related to the Holocaust and discuss the limits of artistic freedom in representing Holocaust accounts. The first event featured Bernhard Schlink, author and Cardozo visiting professor, who read from his acclaimed novel "The Reader," which addresses how second-generation Germans cope with their country’s Nazi past. The series will continue in the spring with dates to be announced.